Winery Jean Claude Guicheney - Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes

Winery Jean Claude GuicheneyChateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes of Winery Jean Claude Guicheney is a sweet wine from the region of Sauternes of Bordeaux.
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Cabernet franc, the Cabernet-Sauvignon, the Malbec and the Merlot.
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.

Taste structure of the Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes from the Winery Jean Claude Guicheney

Light
Bold
Dry
Sweet
Soft
Acidic

In the mouth the Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes of Winery Jean Claude Guicheney in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

Food and wine pairings with Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes

Pairings that work perfectly with Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes

Original food and wine pairings with Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes

The Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes of Winery Jean Claude Guicheney matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of grandma's cherry clafoutis or tournedos with roquefort cheese.

Details and technical informations about Winery Jean Claude Guicheney's Chateau Grillon Haut-Sauternes.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Informations about the Winery Jean Claude Guicheney

The winery offers 5 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Jean Claude Guicheney is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Bordeaux
In the top 150000 of of France wines
In the top 20000 of of Sauternes wines
In the top 15000 of sweet wines
In the top 450000 wines of the world

The wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.


The wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

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The word of the wine: Sorting

Action which consists in removing the bad grains, not ripe or affected by the rot. We often use vibrating sorting tables which, by shaking, make the impurities fall to the ground. In the case of sweet wines, we speak of harvesting by successive selections, in several passages, to select the very ripe grapes each time.

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